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NAME

       powermanga - shoot-'em-up game

SYNOPSIS

       powermanga [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       Powermanga is a shoot'em up game; you will have to fight more than 60 different types of enemies.

       You  start  with a ship, and enemies show up throwing bombs at you.  Shoot them, and get better weapons for your ship (otherwise, you won't
       go too far!)

       To get better weapons, you will have to catch green and red gems.  Whenever you pick a green gem, the highlighted option at the right  side
       of the screen goes up one unit.

       The options are, from the bottom to the top:

       - More speed

       - More energy to your ship
	      If  you  get  out  of  energy,  you  lose  your ship. Losing your ship means either going back to the ship you were using before you
	      "upgraded' it, or dying if you had no previous ship! You can check your energy level in the little bar at the bottom (the bar at the
	      right is yours; the one at the left is your enemy's, in case you're fighting a big one)

       - Several options for different weapons

       - The last option gets you a better ship

       If  the	current  option  is  "more  power to the leftside straight weapons", for example, you may select it and they will immediately take
       effect.

       If the current option is already the last, and you pick a green or red gem, you will  go back to the first one (but you will get  an  extra
       side-weapon). Also, whenever you pick an option, the current option goes back to the first one.

THE GEMS

       During the game, you will sometimes see gems falling down when an enemy is destroyed. You may catch those gems:

       - Green gems
	      As we said before, makes the current option go up one unit.

       - Red gems
	      Similar to the green gem, but it increases 2 units instead of 1.

       - Pink gems
	      Gives  energy  to  your  ship. If your energy is at the maximum level, this gem will give you a full blast that destroys all enemies
	      currently on the screen.

       - Blue gems
	      They multiply the score points for each destroyed enemy by 2. If you get the blue gem again, the score points are multiplied  by	4;
	      you can see the "2x" or "4x" blinking at the sidebar.

       - Yellow gems
	      These  give  you	protection  balls. If you already have six protection balls and you get another yellow gem, you will get a special
	      weapon!

CHANGING SHIPS

       When you get a better ship, you will be able to accumulate more energy, becoming more resistant to attacks. But whenever you "upgrade" your
       ship, a few things will happen:

       - Protection
	      You will lose all your protection balls (let's say they're not "compatible" with your new ship).

       - Weapons
	      You  will  lose  one "degree" in your weapons (if you had used green gems to get the best possible weapon for shooting straight for-
	      ward, for example, after upgrading your ship you will have to get one more green gem if you want your weapons at the maximum power.)

       - Score
	      If your score was getting multiplied by 2 or 4, it won't be anymore (go get more blue gems!)

KEYS

       In the main menu, use the arrow keys and enter.	To play the game, use the arrow keys to move, space for shooting and  control  to  pick  a
       selected option.

       Also:

	CTRL+S	       enable/disable the music
	CTRL+Q	       finish the play current
	CTRL+A	       about Powermanga
	F10	       quit Powermanga
	P	       enable/disable pause
	F	       switch between full screen and windowed mode
	PAGE UP        volume up
	PAGE DOWN      volume down

OPTIONS

       Valid command line options:

       -h, --help
	      prints help message and exit

       --version
	      prints version information and exit

       --window
	      windowed mode (full screen by default)

       --2x   scale2x effects which scale the image of 2x

       --3x   scale3x effects which scale the image of 3x

       --4x   scale4x effects which scale the image of 4x

       --320  the game will run in a 320*200 window

       --full the game will run in full screen

       -v     verbose mode

       --verbose
	      verbose mode (with more messages)

       --nosound
	      disable sound

       --sound
	      enable sound

       --nosync
	      disable timer

       --easy make the game easier by giving more bonuses

       --hard make the game harder

FILES

       /usr/share/games/powermanga/graphics/
	      Graphics files.
       /usr/share/games/powermanga/data/
	      Levels and data files.
       /usr/share/games/powermanga/sound/
	      Sound files.
       /usr/share/games/powermanga/texts/
	      Texts files.

ENVIRONMENT

       HOME   Used to search for graphics and sounds.

AUTHOR

       Powermanga  - Copyright TLK Games. You are free to redistribute and/or change it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the
       /usr/share/doc/powermanga/copyright for details.
       This manual page was written by Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>, based on the previous one by Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for
       the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								    2007-09-02							     POWERMANGA(6)